Sonya K. Bettendorf is a Psychologist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include Divorce, Family Conflict, Relationship Issues, and Self Esteem. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
Relationships are vital for survival and necessary for growth. Often, however, people experience disconnections from others, which can be a major source of suffering. Although we deeply desire and need emotional connections, many people are reasonably apprehensive about the risks involved in intimacy. As a result, one may keep parts of themselves hidden or silenced. This serves an important protective function, which must be honored and understood with compassionate curiosity. Therapy can offer a safe space to relinquish unproductive patterns and consider new, more balanced and flexible ways of relating. Whether you are struggling with depression, anxiety, eating and body image concerns, loneliness, trauma, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, or success and achievement worries, we can work to understand the experiences contributing to distress. It is through this process that suffering is alleviated and change becomes possible. It takes tremendous courage to acc